Run, Run, Run... colapse!

I went for a long run with my friend Marci yesterday. She is training for the St. George marathon and needed a running partner for 10 miles. I had run 13 the week before on a very steep course so I thought that I could handle 10 around the neighborhood. I made it 9 and told her to finish the last one without me. Then all day I felt like I had been run over by a semi! Bryan let me take a nap in the afternoon, but even that didn't help. Finally as I was driving home from Costco at 7:30 at night I had a realization, "I am sick!!!" I realized that I felt so horrible because I had a fever and the flu! I've never been so grateful for the flu. I thought that I was going to have to give up running with Marci. Funny how moms just continue on with life even when they are physically spent. I am taking it easy today and having a pajama day. I do have to take my kids by myself to a swim meet at 7:00a.m. tomorrow, so I need the break today.

15 to 20 Sunbeams!

Our ward has three sunbeam classes. I think there are probably 10 kids in each class, but probably 5 to 8 in each class show up each week. Anyway, sharing time in primary has been difficult with so many sunbeams, therefore the primary presidency has the sunbeams leave and have their own sharing time in a different room. People in the ward sign up to teach these sharing times. I signed up the Relief Society Presidency to teach one and today was our turn. My 1st counselor, Lacey, and I taught them about repentance. We know all of the sunbeams since Lacey has a sunbeam and I teach a lot of them in my preschool or soccer camps. I just have to say that I love 3 year olds! They are so adorable and innocent. They really just want to do what is right. And I must say that some of them are real wigglers, but Lacey and I did a fantastic job at holding their attention. We told them a story about a little girl who stole a candy from the store, but felt bad after she ate it. She told her mom and they went back to the store and paid for the candy with money from the little girls piggy bank. We had the kids play pretend and act out the scenario. This was our way of giving them a candy because it directly pertained to the lesson! So they each got a starburst, ate it, and then pretended to feel bad, and then go through the steps to rectify the situation and then pray and repent. The kids were so cute. Some of them didn't want to eat the candy because they knew it was bad in real life to steal a candy. We also told them about Enos praying in the wilderness and repenting. And, of course we had an object lesson which Lacey is famous for. She is Jack and Cora's piano teacher and she always has these fun science experiments she does with them too. For the object lesson she sprinkled pepper all over a plate of water. The water was us all clean and pure. The pepper represented how we look when we sin. Then she covered her finger in dish soap and touched her finger into the water. It instantly repels all of the pepper to the outskirts of the water. The dish soap was the repentance process that makes us clean again. It was was all very fun. Relief Society is so essential, and I know I am serving where I am needed, but my heart and strengths will always be with those junior primary children. (Wish I had a picture to share, but who takes their camera to church?)

Ready, set, swim!

This picture is from last summer, but it illustrates what our lives are all about until the end of July...swim team. Cora and Jack have swim team practices 4 nights a week and swim meets every other Saturday. They swim with the Blue Diamond Mustangs, and their coaches Trent and Sheila are fantastic! It is a lot of hard work so of course my kids complain sometimes, but they learn so much and really do have a great time too. We are getting fancy new suits this year so I'll have to post another pic of them in their new suits.

Just not the way I want it

This blog is just not me exactly, but I don't know enough about the computer to fix it! My lack of computer skills keeps me from doing a lot of things. So imagine a few artsy frills, more pictures, and maybe even a slide show. Oh yes, and posts by other people, because if I knew what I was doing I might actually tell people that I have a blog!